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with water-colours as Austrians, making the picture an episode of Solferino. On returning the canvas to Mr. Hawk, these water-colours were washed away, and the picture remains now as originally painted.—Art Treasures of America, ii. 25.
WOUTERS, FRANS, born at Lierre,
Brabant, baptized Oct. 2, 1612, died in Antwerp
in 1659. Flemish school; history and
landscape painter, pupil of Pieter van Avont
and of Rubens; master of Antwerp guild
in 1634; went soon after to Germany, where
we find him in 1637 as court painter to Ferdinand
II., with whose ambassador he went
to England and there became painter to the
Prince of Wales, afterwards Charles II.; had
returned to Antwerp in 1641, and was dean
of the guild in 1649. Works: Dance of
Amorettes, Hampton Court Gallery; Prometheus
Bound, Nude Figure with Garland,
Lille Museum; Venus and Adonis,
Copenhagen Gallery; Sacrifice to Priapus,
Royal Palace, Berlin; Two Landscapes, Cassel
Gallery; Conflagration in Dutch City,
Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Rape of Europa,
Gotha Museum; Diana Hunting (1630), Vienna
Museum. The two pictures, in the
same museum, representing St. Joachim and
St. Joseph, formerly ascribed to him, are by
Magdalena Woutiers, of Mons, Hainault, who
flourished in the first half of the 17th century.—Immerzeel,
iii. 248; Michiels, viii.
192; Rooses (Reber), 319; Van den Branden,
805.
WOUWERMAN (Wouverman), JAN,
born in Haarlem, baptized Oct. 30, 1629,
died there, buried Dec. 1, 1666. Dutch
school; landscape painter, brother of Philips
Wouwerman, entered Haarlem guild in
1655. He painted hilly landscapes, views of
canals, and wide plains, with strong colouring
and light effects, and enlivened them
by figures and animals. Very few of his
pictures exist, and several are probably attributed
to Jan Wynants, whose manner his
own closely resembles. Works: Landscape
with Horsemen, Arenberg Gallery, Brussels;
View in Haarlem, Haarlem Museum;
Hilly Landscape, Rotterdam Museum;
Rocky Ravine with Figures, Liechtenstein
Gallery, Vienna; The Halt, New York Museum.—Burger,
Musées, ii. 303; Dohme,
1ii.; Van der Willigen, 341.
WOUWERMAN, PHILIPS, born in Haarlem,
baptized
May 24, 1619,
died there, May
19, 1668. Dutch
school; landscape,
genre, and
animal painter,
first instructed by
his father Pauwels
Joosten,
then pupil of Jan
Wynants, whose
influence is traceable in his backgrounds.
He introduced groups of horses, hunts, soldiers,
in the manner of Pieter van Laer, but
with far more variety. His figures and animals
are well drawn and animated, and the
general tone is tender and harmonious. He
painted nearly eight hundred pictures,
including many repetitions of the same
motive. In his first style the brown tone,
heavy race of horses, and angular drawing of
figures remind one of Pieter van Laer. His
second style is distinguished by the pure
golden tone and slender build of horses, and
the third by the prevalence of a dull silvery
tone. Works: Belle Laitière, Interior of
Stable, Fishwomen on Seashore, Gathering
Faggots, Landscape, Stag Hunt, Skirmish,
Two Vedettes on Watch, National Gallery,
London; Two Horsemen and Lady, Coup
de Pistolet, Farmer attacked by Robbers,
Hawking Party, six others, Buckingham
Palace, ib.; three in Bridgewater Gallery,
ib.; Ferme au Colombier, four others, Lord
Ashburton, ib.; Hawking Party, Huntsmen
halting before Inn, Mr. Hope, ib.; Horse-Fair,
Grosvenor Gallery, ib.; Horseman with
Hounds, Inn with Tents, Mr. Baring, ib.;
Racing for the Herring, four others, Mr.
Holford, ib.; Riding Party, Hawking Party,
Alfred de Rothschild, ib.; Woman and Child